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gpWIN MARTIN, Proprietor".
Devoted, to Home Interests and Culture.
TWO DOLLARS A. Year in Advance,
VOLUME IX.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27,1879.
NUMBER 13.
New Advertisements.
POOR GEE AT MEN.
The undersigned will be found at his
old stand in
Perry*,
With a complete stock of
groceries,
provisions,
dry: GOODS,
« SHOES, & HATS,
Which he proposes to sell as cheap
«8 any other house in. Perry for Cash.
All persons wanting goods on Time
B „ B t make good papers—Such as I
can use.
FRESH MEAT.
I will also at nil times in season
keep FRESH BEEF, MUTTON, and
KIDS, as I expect 10 keep up a reg
ular meat market, aDd ask the peo
ple to patronize and euconrago me to
d ° B0 ' J. W. MANN,
c.
C.ANDEK80N,
ATTOBHKt AT LAW,
HawkinsviUe, Go.
Will practice In the courts of Pulaski, Hone-
tot tad adjoining counties.
J0BS0N,
F, A Abtisau,
' Perry, Georgia.
Sewing Machined, Jewelry, Gone, I-ochs. and ev
erything In ids lino repaired and fitted up in the
uorttuhi
uo«t tubfdantial manner.
All work not called for In ten days after being
finished will be sold to pay charges.
US* All work done promptly and at the lowcs
rices for cash,
F80 ITU RE FREIGHT FREE.
ZNTIRELY SEW AND ELEGANT STOCK Or
PTTR.KTITXm33
fast received and for sale at Fo
price*.
BSJY AT HOME.
COPFIMB.
A Hearse can be furnished to order ot any time
oti abort unticc. I can lie found in the day time at
-my Htore, next to the hotel; at uiglit at my residence
Riljuiuiug Dr. Htivis.
Furniture Made to Order,
remirecl nt short notice. Burial Clothes, ready
&uule, for ladies, gentlemen ami children.
BARTLET’S UNRIVALLED
SPRING BEDS.
GEORGE PATfL,
PERKY. GEORGIA.
re
ft 4Y NURSERY STOCK is very largo and fiuo this
It A season, and if you wish to plant acclimated
reca and such variotics as arc best adapted to home
ad market uses, you cau procure them at the 1)1
wing extraordinary low prices:
3PB.ICE LIST:
APPLES.
Single Trees $ 15.
Kr Hundred 1003.
PEACHES.
Single Trees..
*ar Hundred .
PEARS.
THE DIAMOND SWINDLER.
Standard Twa years old 50 cents each.
•- Oua " 30 cents each.
Dwarf Two Years Old -.40 cents each.
“ Ono “ Socents each.
Account or Chinese Sand Pear $100 each.
Potnegrauatesahd Grapes 25 cents
finms, Quinces, Mulberries and Pigs.... 23 cents
Strawberries.—Per Hundred $ 1,00
“ « lhcusaud...... 8.08
Special Rates Given for Large Orde a.
*feeGriptive CfcWogue «ent free on application.
Address
S.V5UJEL II. HUMPH,
■“Willow Lake Smsery,
Marshallvilie, Ga.
OrT. O. SKELLIE,
Port Talley, Ga.
NEW HARNESS SHOP
J.F. HUMPHREYS,
Perry,
- Georgia.
u , the «torc
W-JSS"* * Bro., I tespsdtruUy solicit-a liberal
Jat ® of the public patronage. I keep on hand
SADDLES,
BY JAMES FABTON.
A year or two before the panic, being
at the beautiful city of Providence in
Rhode Island, I was assured by un aged
fesident of the place that Providence
was tho richest city in the world. I
suppose I looked increduloas, for he
immediately added:
What I mean is this: Divide the
property in Providence equally usnong
its inhabitants, and we find fifteen
hundred and fifty dollars apiece; and
this is the largest average which the
census tables of any country exhibit. ”
At that time almost all property was
over-estimated, particularly real estate.
But reducing the old gentleman’s aver
age to a thousand dollars for each in
habitant, he could have made oat a very
good case for his claim. Id is estima
ted by statisticians that the whole
amount of property in the world, divi
ded equally among its inhabitants,
would give to each individual consider
ably less than a hundred dollars. In
deed, there are extensive provinces of
civilized countries where the average
man does uo f possess so much.
A few days after this, visit to Provi
dence I mentioned the old gentleman’s
remark to a Boston lawyer, noted for
his knowledge of statistics. Be was
disposed to admit the ctaim for Provi
dence, but maintained that, as a com
monwealth, the State of Massachusetts
was then the most prosperous in the
world. He adduced many facts from
the census in support of this opinion,
and, warming with his subject, conclu
de d with the following statement: •
“At the present time Massachusetts
is increasing’ her wealth at the rate of
three cents a day for each inhabitant—
an increase without parallel in the his
tory of man.”
Upon looking into the subject after
wards, I have found reasons for bcliev
ing these gentlemen were both very
much in the right. It is a fact that the
human race is and has been very poor.
It is also a fact that no community can
ever ba so rich that poverty will not be
the lot of a majority of its inhabitants.
The renson of this is plain: Prosperi
ty brings increase of numbers, as well
as increase of wealth. As soon as there
is more food there are more mouths.—
As soon as there is more cloth there are
more hacks. Poverty must., therefore,
forever be the common lot of man.
do not say destitution. I do not say
pinching and degrading poverty. But.
probably, any family of five persons
that has a clear income of fifteen dollars
a week is richer than the average family
can ever be in any extensive and popu
lous country:
Americans, even now, after tlie last-
five distressing years, cau form no idea
of what poverty is iu older and more
densely peopled countries. One of our
thriving German fellow-citizens told me,
some iime ago, how he came to this
country when he was a youDg man. At
twenty-one he was a jourm-yman lock
smith, earning about as much as me
chanics m Germany usually do—that is,
a subsistence, pins a little tobacco and
beer. He made up his mind to emi
grate to America, and began at once to
save money for th-.-.t purpose. Upon in
quiry he fonnd that to get to the sea-
coast and cross the ocean to New York
would cost forty-two dollars. He saved
everv possible cent, and occasionally
worked a little on liis own account in
the evening; but after four years of the
most intense exertion and severe econo
my, he was still twelve dollavs short of
the sum required. These twelve- dol
lars he borrowed of a comrade, who was
also saving money for the same .pur
pose. He landed iu New York with
scarcely any£money and still less Eng
lish, and walked the streets seven
months before obtaining employment,
going in. debt for his board. The Ger
mans are so honest a people that they
trust one another in a surprising man
ner. At length he got a job of chop
ping sausage meat from a First Avenue
grocer, and having thus obtained a foot
hold, soon chopped himself into the
good graces of his employer and belter
wages. He paid his debts and got into
bnsiness. When he told me this story
he had just bought a lot ou Madison.
Avenue for forty-five thousand dollars,
which transaction called to his mind
the story of his emigration.
This gave me a more vivid idea of
honest poverty than I had ever before
had. Think of a man’s working hard
and saving hard for four years to get
thirty dollars. Bnt even then he was
nearly up to the Massachusetts standard
of an increase of three cents a day.
At such a time as this, when large
numbers of virntous people ore obliged
to economize with extreme severity, it
is of little use to fix our eyes upon the
few individuals who have more than
they need. It is more profitable at
I was reading the other day of the I
early life’ of the poet Wordsworth and | —— jpjJ&VS
his sister, the faithful companion of his • Death of the Man who made a . FoB-
poverty and toils. Upon coming out of J tone by Salting a Valley with
college he tried to earn his subsistence! .Jewels. -
by literature; but failing in all bis en- j
deavors, be was looking for an engage-! Philip Arnold died in his beautifal
ment upon a newspaper when he re- home in Elizabethtown, in this State,
bridles,
*®»i*lhenrto-order.
and harness,
and promptly done.
PRICES LOW-
ceivcd a legacy of nine hundred pounds.
He invested this sum so that it produc
ed him about two hundred and twenty
dollars a year, and he was able to earn
about seventy-five dollars a year more
by his pen. His revenue, therefore,
was less than three hundred dollars a
year; but both himself and his sister
lived upon it with much comfort and
perfect dignity for eight years. After
wards he was appointed to an office; bnt
to the end of his days he generally had
little more than the income of a Wash
ington clerkship of the lowest rank.—
He found his income sufficient because
he was perfectly free from all false shame
about it. Miss M-artineau relates how
he kept himself from being eaten out of
house nnd home by the host of visitors
whom bis celebrity attracted, He
would address them thus:
Now, my friends, I can give you a
cup of tea, and you are welcome to it;
but if you have come to stay, you must
pay your board.”
The venerable poet used to be a good
deal laughed at for this honest mode of
proceeding. But what was he tc do?—
If lie bad given only a dinner to all his
admirers who called to see him during
the summer seasoD, his family must ei
ther have lived upon baked potatoes
the rest of the year, or else they must
have gone into debt. '
It is consoling to think in times like
these of the little that human nature
ready requires, and how comfortably a
a family can live upon little when they
work together in harmony for the com
mon good. I wish some, one would
write a little book that could be sold
fo rfifteen cents, showing how much
farther a dollar will go when it is spent
in the best manner, than when it
spent carelessly. Half of ns do not un
derstand the ,/sae art of economy. Pe
ter Parley tells his readers that his fa
ther, a Connecticut clergyman, had an
average salary, during the fifty years of
his ministry, of four hundred and fifty
dollars a year; upon which he brought
up and educated eight children, and
left an estate of four thousand dollars.
What was ihe secret? There were two
secrets. First, he had eight children,
all of whom, after their sixth year, did
.heir little share of work for the gener
al welfare.- Secondly-, lie had the
of a little piece of land, about twenty
acres of land, Tvhich was part of. his
emolument. Put an intelligent, vigo
rous family, with no nonsense about them,
upon twenty acres of land, with a little
salary coming iu for groceries and
cloth, aud they may be relied on to
work iheir way, first to comfort, and
finally to wealth.
There are a good many young men
now in colleges who are sorely pnt to it
to subsist; but there are very few among
them who are undergoing such a grind
of poverty as the Webster brothers,
Daniel «nd Ezekiel, endured, eighty-
years ago. In the year 1803, Ezekiel
Webster taught a' school six hours a day
in Boston, had an evening school for
sailors, kept up with his class in Dart
mouth College, and graduated with
honor three years after entering. His
brother Daniel, meanwhile, was eking
out his subsistence bv copying deeds in
the eveniug, at the rate of two dollars
for four long evenings’ work. When
ever he had a little mouey he gave it to
his brother to help him through col
lege; aud when Ezekiel had gathered a
small surplus, he shared it with Daniel;
both of them occasionally giving a lift
to the old folks at home. The best of
it all was that they passed through this
experience with unflagging gayety and
courage.
Henry Clay, too, about that time- was
earning a very slender livelihood by
copying legal documents. Eis day
dream was to get such a law practice
that he could earu a hundred pounds a
year; bnt even this was unattainable for
a long time.
Of all the public men of America
none has had so bitter au experience of
poverty as Abraham Lincoln. I often
think of him as a young man borrowing
a little life of Washington, and, after
reading it with avidity at every odd
moment, hiding it away at night on a
shelf in the log cabin. The min came
through a chink and soaked the book
through, and he was obliged to work
three days for the owner to make good
the damage.
Poverty is the common lot of man. I
am sorry it is so;.but so it is. A just
prosperity is greatly to be desired; it is
so great a boon as to be worth almost
any amout of patience-and exertion to
win it. We find, nevertheless, that
poverty is not incompatible with hap-
GREENLAND COURTSHIP.
present to reflect upon the countless piness, and that a great number of the
multitudes in every conntrv, .the ut
most exertion of whose faculties jnst
enables them to keep alive. It is con
doling, also, to consider how poor have
been, in every age and country, the
men we are proudest of. "We can
hardly mention a man of the first
many of them remained poor all their
lives.
on Saturday last, of pneumonia. Sev
en or eight years ago his diamond mine
speculation made liis name as well
known throughout the world as was ev
er that of John Law, or any other
shrewd schemer who successfully im
posed on credulous speculators. Ar
nold was born in Hardin county about
fifty years ago, and was bred there, be
ing apprenticed to a hatter. Ho ran
away before his term of service expired,
and enlisted as a soldier, in the Mexi
can war. After peace was fieclared he
went to California, aud remained there
until 1872, when he appeared in Eliza
bethtown and opened a large account
in the local bank. It was said that he
had discovered an immense diamond
field in California, and had come home
to enjoy, among his old friends, the
fruits, of bis fortune. Speedily, howev
er, on the heels of this rumor came the
allegations of J. B. Cooper, a San Fran
cisco bookkeeper, who made affidavits
that the diamond field was a gigantic
swindle, that Arnold had planned and
persuaded him to help carry out.
Arnold sailed for Europe with §40,n
000, and bribed two sailors to go amoDg
the London jewelers and buy what dia
monds they could in thetrough. He
got together this way §37,000 worth of
cheap stones, something like a bushel
in quantity, and sailed back again to
California. Some months afterwards a
number of wealthy San Francisco spec
ulators, among whom were William
Ralston and William M. Lent, 'were
told that Arnold aDd a friend of his
named Slack, also an Elizabethtown
boy, had stumbled upon a valley in
which diamonds, sapphires, and gems
of various kinds and values were to be
picked up with only the trouble of
stooping for them. The lucky tinders
had a bagful of the jewels in their pos
session that they claimed to have gath
ered in the valley, and they were dis
played iu such profusion that one of the
speculators said they covered one ead
of a billiard table an inch deep.
Arnold took his bag of gems to New
York, and a company with §10,000,000
enpifal, was suggested to work the mine.
Nearly 8100,000 was subscribed, and
Henry Jauin, an expert, was engaged
to explore the valley and report upon
the prospect. Arnold led the expedi
tion that was fitted out for the purpose.
They started" from Denver, Col., on
May 3S. 1872, and after travelling nine
days, Arnold told them they .were on
on the spot. They afterwards ascer
tained that they were only thirty miles
from the point of departure. But the
valley more than fulfilled their anticipa -
tions. They spent seven days there,
and gathered 1,000 carats of diamonds
and 6,000 carats of other precious stones.
Janie’s report wss an enthusiastic one.
There had already been paid to Arnold
§250,000, and on Janin’s report §400,-
000 worth more of the stock was sold,
of which Arnold got §300,000.
Information of the alleged discovery
soon reached England, and the Lon
don Times demonstrated the geological
impossibility of so many jewels being
of such various kinds iu one locality,
nod further exposed the swindle by ma
king known the fact that persons from
California had attracted attention the
year before in London by buying up all
the rough diamonds to be found in the
city. The managers cf the company
then sent Clarence King, United States
Geologist, to visit the valley. He soon
ascertained that the ground had been
plainly “salted,” Holes had been poked
with a common stick into the clay, the
jewels dumped into them, and then
stopped up again.
A few weeks after the exposure sever
al California capitalists sued Arnold
and Slack in the Kentucky courts for
the recovery of §350,000. ■_ The.snit was
e<mpromised by the payment of §150,-
000. No criminal action was ever be
gun against either of them.
Arnold established a bank in Eliza
bethtown, and heiween him aud L. M.
Longshaw, who had also a bank there,
there had been much rivalry and bad
feeling. A letter to a commercial
agency, in June last, reflecting on the
financial standing of Arnold’s bank, he
attributed to his rival, and began a
suit against him for §35,000 damages.
H. N. Holdsworth, one of Longshaw’s
cleiks, took an active part in the con
troversy, and Arnold cowhided him in
the Btreete. They met again in a bar
room August- 22d last, and Arnold
knocked Holdsworth down. . Holds
worth ran to the bank, got a shot-gun,
and fired at Arnold as he came from the
b irrcom. Arnold returned the fire with
his pistol shooting five times. None of
theshffts kit Holdsworth, but one of
them struck John Anderson, a fanner,
passing entirely through his stomach.
The second time Holdsworth fired the
When the Danish missionaries had se
cured the confidence of the Greenland
ers mariaage was made a religions cere
mony. Formerly the man married the
woman as the Romans did the Sabine
woman, by force. One of the mission
aries' writing to his journal, describes
the style of present courtship as fol
lows;
The suitor, coming to the missionary,
said. I should like to have a wife.
The man named the woman.
“Has thou spoken to her?
Sometimes the man will answer.
‘Yes she is not unwilling, but thou
kuowest womanhood. More frequent
ly the answer is. No:
“Why not?
It is difficult ; girls are prudish. Thou
must speak to her.
The missionary summons the girl,
and after a little conversation says.
I think it time to have thee mar
ried.
I won’t marry.
“What a pity! I had a suitor for
thee.
“Whom?,’
The missionary names the man who
has sought his aid.
He is good for nothing, I won’t have
him.
But, replies the missionary “he is a
good provider, he throws his harpoon
with skill, and he loves thee.’
Though listening to his praises with
evident pleasure, the girl answered, “I
won’t marry, I wont have him.”
“Well, I wont force thee. I shall
soon find a wife for such a clever fel
low.”
The missionary remains silent as
though he understood her “no” to have
ended the matter.
At last, with a sigh, she vhisptrs,
'Just as thou wilt have it, missionary.’
“No,” replied the clegyman, as thou
wilt, “I’ll not persuade thee.”
Then with a deep • groan, came the
“yes” and the matter is settled.
CAN OYSTERS WHISTLE?
The shop was first established by a
Mr. Pearkes in 1825. “It appears,”
says a writer in the Daily Telegraph,
“that about the year 1840 the proprie
tor of the house in question, which had
then as it has now a great name for the
superior excellence of its* delicate little
‘•native,” heard a strange and unusnal
sound preceding from one of the tubs
in which the shell-fish lay plied in lay
ers one over the other, placidly , fatten
ing upon oatmeal and awaiting the in
evitable advent of tho remorseless knife.
Mi. Pearkes, the landlord, listened,
hardly at first believing his ears. There
was, however, uo doubt about the mat
ter; one of the oysters was distinctly
whistling, or, at any rate, producing a
sort of sifflement with its shell. It was
not difficult to detect this phenomenal
bivalve and in a very few minutes he
was triumphantly picked out from
amongst his fellows and put by himself
in a spacious tub, with a plentiful sup
ply of brine and water. The news
spread through the town and for some
days the fortunate Mr. Pearkes found
his house besieged by curious crowds.
*• * * Douglas Jerrold’s suggestion
was that the said oyster had been cross
ed in love and now whistled to keep up
appearances with an idea of showing
that it did not care.” Thackeray used
to declare that he was once actually in
the shop when au American came in to
see phenomenon, as everybody else was
doing, and after hearing the talented
molluskgo though his usual perfor
mance strolled contemptuously out, de
claring “it is nothing to an oyster • he
knew of in Massachusetts, which whis
tied “Yankee Doodle” right though
and followed its master about lhe house
like a dog.”
Rats Sucking a Horse’s Blood.—A
prominent horse denier of this city told
ns the following curious story this mor
ning about the fancy his rats fas he
calls them) have for a change of diet:
He keeps a horse, aud noticed lately
that it showed symptoms of lameness
in his fore legs. He examined him
caiefully, but could not discover the
cause. On going to the stable one day,
he, before entering, looked in throngh
the window; then, to his astonishment,
lie counted eleven rats stuck on the
horses legs, sucking his blood. He
waited, expecting every moment that
the horse would shake them off,
but instead of doing this he remained
motionless and seemed to enjoy the
strange visitors. A rap on the window
sent the rats scurrying off. On exam
ination of the horse’s legs he found
twenty-one little boles, from eleven of
which the blood was flowing. The
horse was removed to another stable
and soot: recovered from the sores, but
strange to say, bis appetite basal-
most failed him. He refuses oats, as a
consequence, has fallen off m flesh, so
much so that now he is almost useless.
—Montreal [Can.) Post.
Tee iast number of the Congression
al Record was not completed nntil last
Thursday, because during the last twen
ty-four hours of the session members
of Congress obtained leave to print
many speeches that had never been de
livered. Members are allowed to have
a certain number of their speeches prin
ted in pamphlet form and for all addi
tional copies are required to pay cost
price. On the last day orders were giv
en for 260,000 copies of speeches, Mr.
Hewitt, of New York, ordering 47,000
copies of his speech on the Federal elec
tion laws, and Mr. Garfield 10,000 cop
ies cf his speech on the sngar tariff.
There were orders for about 100,000
copies of the speeches made in the Sen
ate debate upon the exclusion of Jeffer
son Davis from the Mexico war pension
list.
Pruning the Peach Trees.—Obser
vation and experience has satisfied ns
that_peuch trees shonld not be thinned
out, but “headed in,” or cut back.
Our readers who have had experience
in growing peach trees will notice, after
a few years, the tree will throw'out
three to four limbs, tall and spindling,
and these^are easily broken down or
split off, and then the fruit becomes
smaller. A remedy for this is to keep
the tree cut back; that is, in the fall cut
back at least half of all new growth.
\Ye hear mnch said about thinning out
the fruit to grow first-class fruit,
very simple way is to pass around the
tree, and, with a long pole pruning
knife, cut off part of the bearing twigs
When in blossom.. This causes the bal
ance of the fruits on the bearing twigs
to grow much larger and finer. A still
better way is to cut off half the growth
that has formed in August. (We speak
for this litito.de, Rochester, New Pork.)
This causes better development, of wood
and bud on tho part that is left; unu,
too, this entting back will keep the tree
more compact, and prevent such a long
spindling growth of limbs. Try it
reader, auother year, and if you have
any donbt of our statements being cor
rect, trim one tree as wa have directed,
and leave one of the same age and in
the same locality without trimming
Fruit Recorder.
worthiest of onr race have lived long
and gloriously upon very slender and
precarious resources.—New York Lcdg-
Ps ogress of the low-necked style—
1st degree, nude shoulders; 2d
order who was not bred iu poverty, and neuralgia; 3d’ pneumonia; 4th,. a
entize lead lodged in Arnolds right
breast and shoulder, He never thor
oughly recovered from the effects of the
wound, although it was not the imme
diate cause of ins death. None of the
persons’ engaged in the melee were
prosecuted.
Mr. .Arnold’s bank was one of the
” He was
coffin; 5th,
6th, a new
“We ought to have
room for enthusiasts, even if they vio
late every Tale of grammar. A grand,
blundering, hammering, thundering,
whole-hearted Boanerges is worth a
dozen prim, reverend gentlemen, meek
.anew holem the ground; jjs the-boast'fit Hardin county.—Louis- as miik and water and soft as a boiled
angel somewhere. ■ vide Letter. parsnip.” *
-very hospitable, and his stable was no-
! ted for i:s fast stock, and his fruit farm
The Democratic members of the for
ty-sixth Gongress are firm in their, op
position to the obnoxious laws provid-
irg for supervisors of.elections, jnrora
test oath and the use of the army as a
means of securing Radical successes.
They will first pass acts repealing the
laws as separate measures. These
Hayes will veto. They will then di
vide the legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill into three bills,
ons appropriating mo ney to pay the
legislative branch of the government,
and another to pay the salaries of the
Judiciary Department. The third to
provide for paymeut of salaries in the
Executive Department, which includes
that of Hayes himself, will have incor
porated in it the desired repeals. What
Hayes will do under these circumstan
ces excites some reforest. Its is
thought likely, however, that he will
hold out.
TREES AND MIASMA.
So much has been said within tlte last
few years oi the value of eucalyptus or
Austrrlaian gum tree, in destroying or
neutralizing the miasma of malarial dis
tricts, that it would bo well that experi
ments be made with various plants for
this purpose, especially those Having
large, and particularly those having
dowuy leaves, as well. The common
sunflower is well known for its so-called
value in preventing tho bad effects of
miasma. There are undoubtedly many
others as good, and that may as easily
bo grown. Marshy lands are as harm
less if the Vegitation, in decaying, does
not give off putrescent gases, for
mere moisture is not unhealthy.
Hence marshes become pestiferous if
accumulations of vegetable matter ex
ist. which under, the effects of suffi
cient heat and moisture, give off putre
fying matter. In the North, marshes
are not deadly, for the reason that the
summer heat is not sufficient, as a rule,
to produce putrid fermentation to a
degree sufficient to produce any but the
lighter forms of malarial diseases.
The basiness of plants is to pump up
and utilize tlioso noxious matters, and
utilize them in their structure, while at
the same time they give off oxygen by
their leaves. Hence marshes which a-
bound in a variety of plants are not un
usually deadly. The most noxious are
those which dry up in the summer and
leave the mnd exposed to the action of
the sun, Hence the most potent means
of obviating its effects is to plant the
margin with some broad leafed trees,
and preferably those that are pubescent
or downy, as the basswood. We have '
before this advised tho planting of sun
flowers in miasmatic neighborhoods,
aud hope to see it acted ou the coming
season. We also hope that those who
do so will make the result public.—
Pra rie Farmer.
How Colored Emigrants are De
ceived.—Yesterday morning brought in
a large number of colored emigrants
from the Mississippi. They were of the
genuine old plantation kind and fall of
belief of the various stories that had
been told them before leaving their
homes and caused them to come West.
After all their baggage had been unload
ed and piled away, and a good look at
the depot taken by all, tmetof the party
stepped over to the Kansas Pacific laud
office, and Union avenue, and there ad
dressed Frank Crane,; ‘Say, boss, wkar
do dey get dem §500 and dat 160 acres
of land. I’se come all de way from ole
Mississippi with the woman and de pic-
aninnies to get dat; and dey do tell me
over dar (pointing to the Union depot)
de Gobenor of dis State am a colored
genelrnan; is dat so, boss?’ Frank Crane
told him there must be some mistake,
as at present they were not giving away
any money or land. The honest -dar
key’s countenance fell several feet, and
he left, stating he ‘would leave de wo
man here and see dat Govenor’—and,
purchasing a ticket for Topeka, left on
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
train for that point.—Eansa. CUy Times
March 5.
A Model Confession.—Seventy
scars ago in a Vermont town, a young
lawyer—S member of a large church-
got drunk. The brethren said he must
confess. He demured. He knew the
members'to be a good people, but that
they had their little faults, such as driv
ing shaip bargains, screwing the labor
er down to low wages, loaning money
at illegal rates, misrepresenting articles
they had for sale, etc. But they were
a good people, and pressed tlie lawyer
to come before the “church meetiug”
to own .up to his sin of taking a glass
too mack, for they were a temperance
people before temperance societies ex
isted. Tho sinner finally went to the
the confession; found a large gathering
.of brethren and sisters, whose bowed
heads rose, and whose eyes glistened
with healthy delight, as the lawyer be
gan his confession.
“I confess,” began he, “that I never
took ten per cent, for money.”- (six was
tho legal rate.) On this confession down
went si brother's head with a groaD.
“I never turned Ja poor man from my
door who needed food or shelter!”
Down went another head. “I confess I
never sold a skim milk cheese for a new
milk one.” Where upon a sister shriek
ed for mercy. “But” concluded the
sinner, “I have got drunk, and I am
sorry for it.” Where upon the meeting
was peaceably dismissed.
Between this time and November
there will be bnt four State elections.
’Ihe first is that in Louisiana, for mem
bers of the Constitutional Convention;
then will come the state election in
Kentucky in August, and the California
dection for members of Congress
September. Ohio completes the list
with .its election for Governor in Octo
ber. In November quite -a number of
States hold their elections for State offi
cers, the most important, of course, be
ing New York.
The indianions are that immigration
will set iu briskly from England in lhe
spring. The labor unions are assisting
all who desire to get a way. The im
pression is that our country is on the
eve of better Hm~s. and tins hope will
j bring thousands who have no hope of
employment abroad.
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In 1776 there were iu the United
States but thirty-seven newspapers of
all grades. Seven were in Massachn-
sotts, four in New York and nine in
Pen a -1vania. One was a semi-weekly,
the remainders were weeklies. To-day
there are over 8,000 newspapers of att
grades published in the country. New
York has the largest number, Pennsyl
vania next Massachusetts ranks seventh
or eighth. A hundred years ago there
was a paper printed for every' "30,000
inhabitants; now "one to every 5,000.
Three years ago the combined circula
tion of all the journals in the United
States amounted fo over 1,250.000,000
copies. On an average for the five
years preceedreg 1876 there were six
newspapers started every day, bnt the
actual increase ia the number daring
the time was about 2,000. The -remain
der died from 'various causes.
Sheep As Beasts Of Burden.—In
the “Colonies of India,” we find a note
respecting the employment of sheep ns
beasts of burden. In eastern Tnrkis-
tan and Thibet, for instance, berax is
borne on the hacks of sheep over moun
tains to Leh, Kangra and Bampur
on the Sutlej. Borax is fonnd at Ba-
dok in Chaugthan, of such excellent
quality that only 25 per cent, is lost in
refining it. The Rudok borax ’ ~
ried on sheep to Rampor,
x j.
el at tbe rate or two miles a c
3 at,
not withstanding the superior
and the demand for it in Eu
expenses attending-its transpo
riously hamper tlie trade, which, but for
the sheep, would hardly exist at all.
In Jones county Iowa two formers
had a quarrel about fourteen fence
rails, alleged to lie worth about §1.40.
They hired two lawyers and went to law
hammer aud tongs. After a long con
test the plaintiff got a verdict of one
cent and the lawvers had pocketed
§324. TSe farmers then elected timn.
to the Legiriaturc.
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